Erste Sitzung: 16. Oktober 2018
The Tempest is probably the last single-authored play Shakespeare wrote before he retired as a playwright. Lyrical, metatheatrical, and packed with magic, The Tempest has inspired numerous adaptations across various cultural practices throughout the centuries. In this seminar, we will read The Tempest and discuss its particularities and complexities as an early modern play; we will then turn to various adaptations of the play in paint, in film, on stage and in fiction. We will focus on how these adaptations rework Shakespeare’s play for their own cultural purposes.
Texts: Students must own the following editions:
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan. Revised edition. New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. The Arden Shakespeare.
Césaire, Aimé. A Tempest. Transl. Richard Miller. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2007. Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2017.
The books should be available at Bock & Seip on campus before the start of the new term. |
